agents

Class BayesianAgent

java.lang.Object

negotiator.Agent

agents.BayesianAgent

Direct Known Subclasses:

BayesianAgentNS

public class BayesianAgent
extends Agent

Wrapper for opponentmodelspace, so that it is a neat utilityspace that we can give to the bidspace.

Author:

Tim Baarslag & Dmytro Tykhonov

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected OpponentModel	fOpponentModel

Fields inherited from class negotiator.Agent

fNegotiation, parametervalues, sessionNr, sessionsTotal, startTime, strategyParameters, timeline, totalTime, utilitySpace

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
BayesianAgent()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Action	chooseAction() this function is called after ReceiveMessage, with an Offer-action.
protected void	dumpDistancesToLog(int pRound)
java.lang.String	getName()
static java.lang.String	getVersion()
void	init() This method is called by the protocol every time before starting a new session after the internalInit method is called.
protected boolean	isAcceptableAfter(double offeredutil, Bid lnextBid) Returns whether the offered utility is acceptable after computing a counter offer.
protected boolean	isAcceptableBefore(double offeredutil) Returns whether the offered utility is acceptable before computing a counter offer.
protected void	prepareOpponentModel()
void	ReceiveMessage(Action opponentAction) informs you which action the opponent did

Methods inherited from class negotiator.Agent

endSession, getAgentID, getParameterValues, getSessionNumber, getSessionsTotal, getStrategyParameters, getUtility, internalInit, isUIAgent, loadSessionData, parseStrategyParameters, restartDataObjectsFolder, saveSessionData, setAgentID, setName, sleep

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

fOpponentModel

protected OpponentModel fOpponentModel

Constructor Detail

BayesianAgent

public BayesianAgent()

Method Detail

getVersion

public static java.lang.String getVersion()

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

Overrides:

getName in class Agent

Returns:

name of the agent.

init

public void init()

Description copied from class: Agent

This method is called by the protocol every time before starting a new session after the internalInit method is called. User can override this method.

Overrides:

init in class Agent

prepareOpponentModel

protected void prepareOpponentModel()

ReceiveMessage

public void ReceiveMessage(Action opponentAction)

Description copied from class: Agent

informs you which action the opponent did

Overrides:

ReceiveMessage in class Agent

chooseAction

public Action chooseAction()

Description copied from class: Agent

this function is called after ReceiveMessage, with an Offer-action.

Specified by:

chooseAction in class Agent

Returns:

(should return) the bid-action the agent wants to make.

isAcceptableAfter

protected boolean isAcceptableAfter(double offeredutil,
                        Bid lnextBid)
                             throws java.lang.Exception

Returns whether the offered utility is acceptable after computing a counter offer.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

isAcceptableBefore

protected boolean isAcceptableBefore(double offeredutil)
                              throws java.lang.Exception

Returns whether the offered utility is acceptable before computing a counter offer.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

dumpDistancesToLog

protected void dumpDistancesToLog(int pRound)